Cleveland Council on Soviet Anti-Semitism, 1968-1978

File

Identifier: B093.01.0001.0018

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Abstract

Various materials related to the Cleveland Council on Soviet Anti-Semitism. The Cleveland Council on Soviet Anti-Semitism was founded in 1963 as a grassroots human rights campaign to alleviate the growing oppression of the Soviet Union Jewry. It was the first organization of the American Soviet Jewry Movement. The Cleveland Council's goals were to "galvanize" American Jewish organizations to undertake a public campaign to pressure the USSR to grant... rights to its Jewish citizens, including the right to emigrate, and to inspire the American Jewish community to create an organization dedicated to the liberation of Soviet Jewry from anti-Semitic oppression.

Dates

1968-1978

Creator

Cleveland Council on Soviet Anti-Semitism (Organization)

Extent

From the File: 1 Linear Feet : record box

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Most of the records consist of letters, educational materials, bulletins and published newspaper accounts of activities by world-wide, national and local groups on behalf of Soviet Jews. Rhoda Friedman collected most of this material. The Records also have scrapbooks about Lillian Hoffman.